A relatively small pain in the ass, but noticeable for a few of the companies that I work with.
Yahoo Pipes allows you to aggregate and manipulate and customize RSS feeds. For publishers in the Northeast US, Pipes is down, leaving them without many of the content feeds that they use to power their business. Companies using Yahoo Pipes to feed their video content are currently serving up blanks where the players and playlists should be.
Seems like this has been a recurring problem.
I’m sure it will be back up shortly, but in case you bump into a blank video player, now you know why.
It’s really quite a problem for small to medium sized businesses that are counting on Web video for their efforts. Reliability is very important with these kinds of services as more and more businesses use video online.